Retro: Los Angeles Mon, July 9, 1979

[Bluenoser]

30 years ago today, from TV Guide's Los Angeles Metro edition

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2 KNXT-CBS Los Angeles
3 KEYT-ABC Santa Barbara
4 KNBC-NBC Los Angeles
5 KTLA-Ind Los Angeles
7 KABC-ABC Los Angeles
9 KHJ-Ind Los Angeles
11 KTTV-Ind Los Angeles
12 KCOY-CBS Santa Maria
13 KCOP-Ind Los Angeles
18 KSCI-Ethnic San Bernardino
22 KWHY-Business/Ethnic Los Angeles
24 KVCR-PBS San Bernardino (also on 62 Riverside)
28 KCET-PBS Los Angeles
30 KHOF-Rel Glendale
34 KMEX-Sp Los Angeles
36 KMIR-NBC Palm Springs
40 KTBN-Rel Los Angeles
42 KESQ-ABC Palm Springs (also in PS on ch82)
50 KOCE-PBS Huntington Beach
52 KBSC-Ind Los Angeles
58 KLCS-PBS Los Angeles

Morning
5:00
40 Live Now

5:30
2 Summer Semester "Asia"
40 Teach Us to Pray

5:55
4 Knowledge

6:00
2 Juntos
3 PTL Club
7 Contemporary Health Issues
9 Community Feedback
11 University of the Air
13 News
40 Destined for the Throne

6:15
13 My Turn

6:25
4 Not for Women Only

6:30
2 Sunnyside
5 Personal Finance & Money Management
7 Daybreak LA
9 Humanities Through the Arts
11 New Zoo Revue
13 Fun World of Hanna-Barbera
40 Captain Andy

6:45
28-50 AM Weather

6:55
4 News

7:00
2-12 Monday Morning
3-7-42 Good Morning America
4-36 Today
5 700 Club
9 Froozles
11 Battle of the Planets
13 Josie & the Pussycats
22 Stock Market Opening
28 Yoga for Health
30 Festival of Faith
40 Joy in the Morning
50 Instructional Programs

7:30
9 There is a Way
11 Inch High Wheelie
13 Krofft Superstars
22 Market Coverage
28 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
50 Electric Company

8:00
2-12 Captain Kangaroo
9 PTL Club
11 Yogi & His Friends
13 Mighty Mouse
22 Conservative Investor
28 Jupiter Watch II (coverage of the Voyager mission, live from the Pasadena JPL base)
40 Behind the Scenes
50 Instructional Programs

8:15
40 Word

8:20
40 Day by Day

8:25
40 Joy to the World

8:30
5 Gallery
11 Brady Kids
13 Cartoonville
22 Commodity Line
24 Studio See
40 Holy Spirit in the Now

9:00
2-12 All in the Family
3 Forum
4-36 Card Sharks
5 Phil Donahue
7 AM Los Angeles
11 I Love Lucy (bw)
13 Superman (bw)
22 Market Coverage
24 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
42 Not for Woman Only

9:30
2-12 Whew!
3 Brady Bunch
4-36 All Star Secrets
11 Family Affair
13 Romper Room
22 Executive Report
24 Villa Alegre
42 There is a Way

9:55
2-12 CBS News

10:00
2 Price is Right
3-7-42 Laverne & Shirley
4-36 High Rollers
5 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
9 Mid Morning LA
11 My Three Sons
12 Phil Donahue
13 Woman: Real to Reel
22 New York Stock Exchange
24 Goodbye America (re-enactment of a May 1776 Parliament debate which could have ended the fighting between the Americans and the English)
40 Spirit Song

10:30
3-7-42 $20,000 Pyramid (youth week, with up to $5000 in scholarships up for grabs)
4-36 Wheel of Fortune
11 That Girl
13 Nanny & the Professor
22 Market Update
40 And It Shall Come to Pass

11:00
2 Steve Edwards
3-7-42 Family Feud
4-36 Password
5 Big Valley
11 Ghost & Mrs. Muir
12 Young & the Restless
13 Gomer Pyle, USMC
22 New York Stock Exchange
40 Sharing

11:30
2-12 Search for Tomorrow
3-7-42 Ryan's Hope
4-36 Hollywood Squares
9 Body Buddies
11 News
13 Gomer Pyle, USMC
22 Market Update
24 Best for the Most
30 Call to Prayer
40 Brand New Day

Afternoon
noon
2 Young & the Restless
3-7-42 All in the Family
4-36 Days of Our Lives
5 Twilight Zone (bw)
9 Movie "The Crawling Hand" (bw)
11 Movie "The Plunderers" (bw)
12 News
13 Superman
22 Concepts in Commodities
24 Another Voice
28 Over Easy
30 Live at Noon
40 Behind the Scenes
58 Washington Week in Review

12:15
40 Word

12:20
40 Day by Day

12:25
40 Joy to the World

12:30
2-12 As the World Turns
5 Twilight Zone (bw)
13 Get Smart
22 Market Coverage
24 Turnabout
28 Yoga for Health
30 Richard Murian
34 La Indomable
40 Live Now
58 Over Easy

12:45
22 Commodity Report

1:00
3-7-42 One Life to Live
4-36 Doctors
5 I Spy
13 Get Smart
22 Market Closing Activities
24 Instructional Programs
28 Nova (cc/looks at attempts to harness nuclear fusion)
40 Teach Us to Pray
58 Erica

1:15
22 Dow 30

1:30
2-12 Guiding Light
4-36 Another World
9 News
13 Gomer Pyle, USMC
22 Charting the Market
30 Gospel Time
40 Destined for the Throne
58 Antiques

1:40
52 Meditations

1:45
18 Solutions to Community Problems
52 News

1:50
11 Ben Hunter

2:00
3-7-42 General Hospital
5 Mike Douglas (co-host Dick Van Patten)
9 Ironside
11 Let's Rep
13 News
18 Inland Empire
24 Lilias, Yoga & You
28 Villa Alegre
30 Accent on Living
34 Rosalia
40 Good Life
52 Take 30
58 Instructional Programs

2:30
2 Love of Life
11 Andy Griffith
12 M*A*S*H
13 Tarzan
18 Para Todo Latino
24-28 Instructional Programs
30 Promises of God
34 Los Hermanos Coraje
40 Praise the Lord!
52 Movie "Dreaming Out Loud" (bw)

3:00
2 M*A*S*H
3-7-42 Edge of Night
4 Medical Center
9 Green Acres
11 Fred Flintstone & Friends
12 Love of Life
24 Over Easy
30 Lifestyles
36 Little Rascals (bw)
58 Studio See

3:30
2 Cross-Wits
3 My Three Sons
5 Dinah!
7 Movie "But I Don't Want to Get Married!"
9 My Favorite Martian (bw)
11 Yogi & His Friends
12 Rookies
13 Cartoonville
18 Pelicula "Al norte del Yukon"
24-58 Villa Alegre
34 Torneo de Estrellas
36 Mike Douglas
42 Not for Women Only

4:00
2 Match Game
3-42 Merv Griffin
4 Mary Tyler Moore
9 Saint (bw)
11 Jetsons
24 Studio See
28 Summer Faire
30 Domata
34 Cepellin
58 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

4:30
2 News
4 Bob Newhart
11 Inch High Wheelie
12 Six Million Dollar Man
13 Krofft Superstars
22 Journey to Adventure
24 Que Pasa, USA?
28 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
30 Davey & Golaith
34 Alejandra
40 Backyard
50 Hodgepodge Lodge
52 Abbott & Costello (bw)
58 Instructional Programs

5:00
2-4-7-30 News
5 Bonanza
9 Gunsmoke
11 Family Affair
13 Batman
22 Today's Financial Final
24 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
28 Sesame Street
36 Dinah!
40 Behind the Scenes
50 Over Easy
52 Life of Riley (bw)
58 Advocates

5:15
22 Commodity Final
30 Hermano Pablo
40 Word

5:20
40 Day by Day

5:25
40 Joy to the World

5:30
3-7-42 ABC World News Tonight
11 Partridge Family
12 Joker's Wild
13 Holmes & Yoyo
18 Pelicula "El hijo de D'Artagnon"
22 Charting the Market
24 Over Easy
30 Dr. Eugene Scott
34 Noticiero
40 Destined for the Throne
50 Instructional Programs
52 F Troop

5:45
22 Gold & Silver Report

5:55
22 Wall Street Wrap-Up

Evening
6:00
2-3-4-7-12-36-42 News
5 Kung Fu
9 Celebrity Charades
11 Six Million Dollar Man
13 Streets of San Francisco
22 Gattai Ga
24 Instructional Programs
28 Over Easy
40 Live Now
52 Leave It to Beaver (bw)
58 Crockett's Victory Garden

6:30
3-7-42 Baseball: Boston-California or LA-Montreal (same-day tape)
9 Candid Camera
12 CBS Evening News
22 Tampopo
28 Dick Cavett
34 El Chapulin Colorado
36 TBA
40 Teach Us to Pray
52 Doctor Who
58 Instructional Programs

6:55
2 KNXT Editorial

7:00
2 CBS Evening News
4-36 NBC Nightly News
5 Newlywed Game
9 Joker's Wild
11 I Love Lucy (bw)
12 Mary Tyler Moore
13 Sanford & Son
24 Like It Is
28 28 Tonight (signed/first 7 minutes for the next 4 days is devoted to Jupiter Watch)
30 Festival of Faith
34 Carta para Una Victima
40 Dan Griffin
52 Death Valley Days

7:30
2 Muppet Show
4 Consumer Hotline
5 New Dating Game
9 Tic Tac Dough
11 Brady Bunch
12 Bob Newhart
13 Adam-12
18 Enlightenment/News
22 Toki No Mado
24 Trendsetters
28 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
36 Wild Kingdom
40 Roger!
50 Julia Child & Company
52 Life of Riley (bw)

7:50
22 News

8:00
2-12 White Shadow
4-36 Little House on the Prairie
5 Movie "Charly" (KTLA advertised all their summer prime-time movies as only having one commercial break; these were sponsored by IBM)
9 Movie "All About Eve" (bw)
11 Carol Burnett & Friends
13 Movie "Montezuma's Lost Gold"
18 Maharishi: Management
24 Marie Curie (pt 4)
28-50 Bill Moyers' Journal
34 Viviana
40 Praise the Lord!

8:30
11 Odd Couple
28 Latino Consortium
34 Esta Noche Olga
50 Star of India: Iron Lady of the Sea
58 Sneak Previews

8:45
18 Transcendental Meditation

9:00
2-12 M*A*S*H
4-36 Movie "A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story"
11 Merv Griffin
18 Conversation with Charlie Lutes
24 Poldark (pt 2)
28 Festival in Vienna
34 Super Estelar Musical
50 Great Performances

9:30
2-12 WKRP in Cincinnati
3 Chico & the Man
7 Movie "The Last of Sheila"
18 Japanese News
34 Pecado de Amor
42 Movie "Generation"

10:00
2-12 Lou Grant
3 Ultimate Weapon (interview with a man jailed behind the Iron Curtain for his religious beliefs)
5-9 News
13 Night Gallery
18 Sumo Digest
24 Bill Moyer's Journal
28 Poldark (pt 2)
34 24 Horas
50 A Good Dissonance Like a Man

10:30
11-13 News
18 Toyama No Kinsan
24 Star of India: Iron Lady of the Sea

10:50
34 Noticiero

11:00
2-3-4-7-12-36 News
5 Make Me Laugh
9 Movie "Odd Man Out" (bw)
11 Bedtime Stories
13 Benny Hill
24 America After Vietnam
28 Dick Cavett
34 Landru
40 Behind the Scenes

11:15
40 Word

11:20
40 Day by Day

11:25
40 Joy to the World

11:30
2-12 Pan-American Games Update (from San Juan)
3-7 Police Story
4-36 Tonight Show (Don Rickles subs for Johnny)
5 Dick Van Dyke
11 Gong Show
13 Get Smart
18 Inland Empire
24 Lilias, Yoga & You
28 Captioned ABC News
40 And It Shall Come to Pass
42 PTL Club (normally at 11:15, following the late news)

11:45
2-12 Rockford Files

Late Night
midnight
5 Twilight Zone (bw)
11 Alfred Hitchcock (bw)
13 Get Smart (conclusion of the two-parter that started at 11:30)
28 28 Tonight (signed)
30 Dr. Eugene Scott
34 Pelicula "Amor de una vida"
40 Joy in the Morning

12:30
5 Dragnet
11 Alfred Hitchcock (bw)
13 Movie "Frenchie"

12:55
2-12 Movie "The Sterile Cuckoo"

1:00
4 Tomorrow (guests include Ted Turner, who talks about WTCG, who would change its calls to WTBS the following month)
5 Dick Van Dyke (bw)
9 Maverick (bw)
40 Good Life

1:30
3-5-7 News
40 Praise the Lord!

2:00
4 News
13 Get Smart (bw)
34 Noticiero

2:30
13 News

2:50
2 News

3:15
2 KNXT Editorial

3:20
2 Movie "The Connection"

3:30
40 Dynamic Christianity

4:00
40 Good Life

4:30
40 Jimmy Swaggart

 

[radioman148]

KTLA was really into reruns.

 

[FreddyE1977]

I remember these early morning instructional programs like "Summer Semester" and "University of the Air"
Is there anyone out there who actually attended these lectures and actually earned a degree from them? I mean, really? ???

I also remember Villa Alegre on PBS. It was supposed to be the hot up-and-coming Hispanic Sesame Street. Then it just kind of went away. Did it fail, or did they just pull it in my area because we did not have a large Spanish-speaking population?

 

[azumanga]

I also remember Villa Alegre on PBS. It was supposed to be the hot up-and-coming Hispanic Sesame Street. Then it just kind of went away. Did it fail, or did they just pull it in my area because we did not have a large Spanish-speaking population?

"Villa Alegre" began around 1973 and left the air in the mid-to-late-1980s (and was in production through the late-1970s), so it was no failure by all means. I think the show fizzled out because the series was beginning to show its age, against newer PBS series. (The original "Electric Company" was the same way -- production wrapped in 1977, but repeats continued through the mid-80s.)

 

[Mike Stroud]

KTLA was really into reruns.

Do any of you suppose that was because the Tribune Company owned the station? It would interesting to compare KTLA's sked with that of WGN, KWGN (Denver), and WPIX from the same period. I bet that you would find the same pattern in each place, with Trib stations putting a heavy emphasis on reruns and local sports, as opposed to a movie and/or news orientation on their competitors.

 

[RicoGregg]

KTLA was really into reruns.

Do any of you suppose that was because the Tribune Company owned the station? It would interesting to compare KTLA's sked with that of WGN, KWGN (Denver), and WPIX from the same period. I bet that you would find the same pattern in each place, with Trib stations putting a heavy emphasis on reruns and local sports, as opposed to a movie and/or news orientation on their competitors.

In 1979, KTLA was still owned by Gene Autry and Golden West Broadcasters. It was sold around 1982 or so to a group of high level KTLA executives who formed as KTLA Inc., and they paid a then-record $500 million for the station.

 

[ShawnHill1]

I see on the schedule for ABC's Monday Night Baseball that both the Angels and Dodgers were playing at the same time (or at least on tape delay). I wonder what game actually aired that night on KABC?

 

[radioman148]

KTLA was really into reruns.

Do any of you suppose that was because the Tribune Company owned the station? It would interesting to compare KTLA's sked with that of WGN, KWGN (Denver), and WPIX from the same period. I bet that you would find the same pattern in each place, with Trib stations putting a heavy emphasis on reruns and local sports, as opposed to a movie and/or news orientation on their competitors.

In 1979, KTLA was still owned by Gene Autry and Golden West Broadcasters. It was sold around 1982 or so to a group of high level KTLA executives who formed as KTLA Inc., and they paid a then-record $500 million for the station.

I was just going to say that I know Tribune didn't own KTLA in 79.

 

[searadiofreak]

All four of the L.A. indies apparently did not run news during the early evening. Wasn't there a time earlier in the 70's when one or two of the indies had early evening newscasts?

Also interesting that KTLA-5 and KHJ-9 had a 10pm cast, but KTTW-11 and KCOP-13 started at 10:30.

And the KHJ movie was "All About Eve", with Bette Davis from 1950! AMC wouldn't even touch that today.

 

[Rob Jason]

And why was the game running on tape delay? I was in San Francisco in June 1979, and remember seeing a Monday night ball game on the tube starting at 5PM. To me, it was so odd -- because being an east coaster, I was used to seeing it at 8PM. So, a 5Pm live start on the left coast would have been possible. Hard to believe, too, that the network's flagship station for the west coast would run a MLB game on tape delay.

 

[Ultimajock]

...I assume KBSC/52 was running ON-TV after 8:00 p.m.; I rather doubt they'd simply sign off the air after the 7:30 The Life of Riley (Bendix or Gleason?) rerun ;-) ...

 

[azumanga]

Very likely they were (likewise for KWHY) -- usually, TVG lists subscription TV time as merely "subscription television", with the services they carried listed separately, or not at all.

 

[Rollo-Smokes]

[In 1979, KTLA was still owned by Gene Autry and Golden West Broadcasters. It was sold around 1982 or so to a group of high level KTLA executives who formed as KTLA Inc., and they paid a then-record $500 million for the station.

It was the investment firm Kohlberg Kravits Roberts and Co. who purchased KTLA in 1982, then sold the station to Tribune three years later.

 

[radioman148]

[In 1979, KTLA was still owned by Gene Autry and Golden West Broadcasters. It was sold around 1982 or so to a group of high level KTLA executives who formed as KTLA Inc., and they paid a then-record $500 million for the station.

It was the investment firm Kohlberg Kravits Roberts and Co. who purchased KTLA in 1982, then sold the station to Tribune three years later.

Was it when the Tribune Co bought KTLA that they went up on the satellite?

 

[onairb]

And why was the game running on tape delay? I was in San Francisco in June 1979, and remember seeing a Monday night ball game on the tube starting at 5PM. To me, it was so odd -- because being an east coaster, I was used to seeing it at 8PM. So, a 5Pm live start on the left coast would have been possible. Hard to believe, too, that the network's flagship station for the west coast would run a MLB game on tape delay.

ABC used to tape-delay Monday Night Baseball on the West Coast every week(well, each of the 8 to 12 weeks they did a game), til the mid-80s. The games always started at 8:30 ET(later moved to 8), and most West Coast markets generally had a 3-hour delay...L.A. must have been the exception, in this case!
I(grew up in the Bay Area) was a little young to remember for sure, but I have vague memories of ABC's games airing starting later in the evening(after dark), which would rule out a 5PM start.
In '86 or '87, ABC started carrying most games live on the West Coast; I seem to remember a couple of weeks in '87 where the entire network showed games on a one-hour delay(game at 5 PT, but telecast at 6), but by '88, all telecasts were live at 5 PT

ABC always televised its All-Star, playoff and Series games live in the Pacific time zone.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

Re the several responses on the tape-delayed MLB game...

Since both ABC games involve local-market teams, wouldn't the game
have been aired live, even if it normally was on a delay?

As to which game aired, I'd guess the Dodgers were--and likely still
are--higher in the El Lay media pecking order than the Angels.

Regarding live sports being delayed on the left coast--I recall that for
a number of years KOMO-TV Seattle delayed Monday Night Football
(when it was live at 6 PT) until 7.

 

[searadiofreak]

Yes, the Angels are definitely second fiddle to the Dodgers in L.A., despite both teams using "Los Angeles" in their names. I think the perception is the Angels are still the "Orange County" team, as in fact their home is still Anaheim.

KOMO TV Seattle and KATU TV Portland delayed MNF for decades. I think it changed sometime in the 90's, not sure the exact year. The argument was viewers wanted their local news at 6:30pm, (translation: they wanted the 6:30pm revenue).

 

[LKellerIII]

Yes, the Angels are definitely second fiddle to the Dodgers in L.A., despite both teams using "Los Angeles" in their names. I think the perception is the Angels are still the "Orange County" team, as in fact their home is still Anaheim.

KOMO TV Seattle and KATU TV Portland delayed MNF for decades. I think it changed sometime in the 90's, not sure the exact year. The argument was viewers wanted their local news at 6:30pm, (translation: they wanted the 6:30pm revenue).

I guess you have to be my age or older to remember, but when the Angels franchise started, they were the Los Angeles Angels. My memory is fuzzy on where they played - but I seem to remember that they shared Dodger Stadium (what was then colloquially called "Chavez Ravine" in the media). Perhaps they played at the LA Coliseum...can't recall for sure.

But even then, the Angels didn't get too much respect as a new team. It was the era of Koufax and Drysdale - the Dodgers could play some exciting baseball.

Gene Autry moved the team to Anaheim, and changed the name to California Angels.

 

[radioman148]

Yes, the Angels are definitely second fiddle to the Dodgers in L.A., despite both teams using "Los Angeles" in their names. I think the perception is the Angels are still the "Orange County" team, as in fact their home is still Anaheim.

KOMO TV Seattle and KATU TV Portland delayed MNF for decades. I think it changed sometime in the 90's, not sure the exact year. The argument was viewers wanted their local news at 6:30pm, (translation: they wanted the 6:30pm revenue).

I guess you have to be my age or older to remember, but when the Angels franchise started, they were the Los Angeles Angels. My memory is fuzzy on where they played - but I seem to remember that they shared Dodger Stadium (what was then colloquially called "Chavez Ravine" in the media). Perhaps they played at the LA Coliseum...can't recall for sure.

But even then, the Angels didn't get too much respect as a new team. It was the era of Koufax and Drysdale - the Dodgers could play some exciting baseball.

Gene Autry moved the team to Anaheim, and changed the name to California Angels.

The Angels originally played in "old Wrigley Field" which is the place where they televised the TV show Home Run Derby in 1959-60. Then the Angels shared Chevez Ravine with the Dodgers for several years. When the Angels played there it was called Chavez, Dodgers called it Dodger Stadium.
If memory serves correctly the Angels moved to their own stadium in Anaheim around 1966 or so.

 

[Ultimajock]

The Angels originally played in "old Wrigley Field" which is the place where they televised the TV show Home Run Derby in 1959-60.

...if you want to catch a glimpse of what the L.A. Wrigley Field looked like, watch a 1950 movie called Armored Car Robbery the next time it pops up on Turner Classic Movies or Encore Mystery. It involved a robbery at Wrigley, and a couple of scenes were shot at the actual gate to the stadium...